Team player who helped rugby man to tackle fear

At 2.53pm on July 11 this year, David Kurk burst into tears. The former Premiership Rugby match official and Wasps fan says that he remembers the exact time that he received the results from a biopsy which confirmed that he had prostate cancer, but the following moments were a blur. “For the next 20 minutes, you could have said anything to me, I just didn’t take anything in,” Mr Kurk, who is 56, said. “I walked out of there almost as if I had a halo around me, stopping me hearing or seeing.

“As far as I was concerned I was going to die. My first question actually was, when am I going to die? You…